Overall GPA vs IOE GPA

ForeverAlone
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:49:10 +0000

Additionally, why hire someone who has a high Major GPA and low Cumulative GPA when you can hire someone who has both a high Major GPA and a high Cumulative GPA?

sure, if you’re a top company you get yourself the pick

but for smaller places you could apply the same logic why would you ever higher someone with less than a 3.6GPA and who didn’t go to Ivy League/top 10 engineering school?

but hey i guess there’ll always be some very desperate firms/startups



Lastly, it is very unlikely that by the time you graduate, your Major GPA will be a 3.7 and your Cumulative GPA will be a 2.9. Your Major GPA makes up a big chunk of your Cumulative GPA.

the example was an exaggeration, but in real life most people’s 2.9 major gpa can easily be inflated to a 3.3 with non major classes